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#Question id: 39290


Q. Assertion: Protoplast fusion between CMS B. napus (with radish cytoplasm) and normal B. napus can produce healthy male sterile plants. 
Reason: The resulting cybrids can retain the radish mitochondria (for CMS) while replacing the radish chloroplasts with B. napus chloroplasts.

#Plant Biotechnology
  1. Both Assertion and Reason are true, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion.
  2. Both Assertion and Reason are true, but Reason is NOT the correct explanation of Assertion.
  3. Assertion is true, but Reason is false.
  4.  Assertion is false, but Reason is true